Sune Auken<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>randahl</span></a></span> </p><p>Notice how ableist language is roaring back in Musk's reply. We know that some of the expressions (fool, idiot) die hard, but even the ones that were well-nigh dead (in casu: "retard") are now thronw about freely. </p><p>The dehumanizing of the disabled warns us of worse to come.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PoliticalDiscourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalDiscourse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>